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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2016-05-12 19:29:20 +0300
committerRoss Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>2016-05-20 00:28:40 +0300
commit4d9a2c8746671efbb0c27d3ae28c7474597a7aad (patch)
tree34fb766e63a1e503ba48482b34325dbb7bd3aafe /mm/memory.c
parentbc2466e4257369d0ebee2b6265070d323343fa72 (diff)
downloadlinux-4d9a2c8746671efbb0c27d3ae28c7474597a7aad.tar.xz
dax: Remove i_mmap_lock protection
Currently faults are protected against truncate by filesystem specific i_mmap_sem and page lock in case of hole page. Cow faults are protected DAX radix tree entry locking. So there's no need for i_mmap_lock in DAX code. Remove it. Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
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1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index f09cdb8d48fa..06f552504e79 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2453,8 +2453,6 @@ void unmap_mapping_range(struct address_space *mapping,
if (details.last_index < details.first_index)
details.last_index = ULONG_MAX;
-
- /* DAX uses i_mmap_lock to serialise file truncate vs page fault */
i_mmap_lock_write(mapping);
if (unlikely(!RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&mapping->i_mmap)))
unmap_mapping_range_tree(&mapping->i_mmap, &details);